Out of The Blue: David Paige’s Pinot Blanc is a Revelation
This is the best American Pinot Blanc I have ever tasted. Period. Hunt over, piss on the fire and call in the dogs.
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The Fool’s Choice 2021: 8 All Time Best Reds Under $10
Virtually ever since I started in the retail wine biz, back there in 1996, I have kept an ongoing list of wines that offer genuinely spectacular value for the prices charged. Here are eight all-time reds.
The Programming of The American Drinker: A 2021 Update
I firmly believe that, for the majority of Americans our tastes in wine, liquor, and beer are largely determined by the early information we receive when being exposed to these beverages for the first couple of years.
Wine/Beer/Spirits Clubs: A Cranky Desultory Phillipic
THINK – HARD – before you sign up with any online wine club. Think about what you’re getting…and what you’re missing.
Trey Busch and Alex Ganum: There Is No Box
Here’s a toast to the type of person who’s told all the time, “That’ll never work. You’re gonna lose your shirt. Why must you ALWAYS rock the damned boat?!?”…Here’s a toast to Trey Busch and Alex Ganum…
Bottle Shock: Why The Judgment of Paris is More than We Think
Spurrier wanted something else to sell in his Paris wine shop and California might just be, uh, drinkable, if you’re feeling kinky.
Red Wine vs. White Wine: Most of What You Learned is Wrong
I BEG YOU, if you actually love WINE and are not using it as some lifestyle accessory aimed at proving how uber-cool you are, DO NOT take on that asinine, adolescent ‘tude about red over white.
McManis Family Lodi Cabernet: Not So Much a Cab as a Stretch Limo
I’m going to take a fair amount of, uh, merde for this but the new(ish) McManis Lodi AVA California Cabernet is among the five or six best Cabernets I’ve tasted from anywhere…and it remains one of the most jaw-dropping, howling, irrational bargains in the entire world of wine.
The Pour Fool 